TY - JOUR KW - Afrodescendants KW - Chocó KW - Employ of Spaces KW - natural environment KW - Symbolic Appropriation KW - Territorial Perception KW - afrodescendentes KW - afrodescendientes KW - apropiación simbólica KW - apropriação simbólica KW - espacios de uso KW - espaços de uso KW - medio natural KW - meio natural KW - percepción territorial KW - percepção territorial AU - Jaime Peralta Agudelo AB - This article explores some aspects of the scheme of representation that the black communities of the department of Chocó created on marine/ coastal ecosystems, floodplain and Andean foothills that they have inhabited for more than three centuries. The entrance road to this aspect of intangible heritage is oral tradition, which makes visible that this territorial experience has been structured not only from the practical making and thinking, but from symbolic components which have provided reference points (imaginary axiological models, standards of conduct, ways of encoding reality, etc..) that have helped generate a significant portion of this ethnicity s cultural experience in northwestern Colombia. M1 - 14 N2 - This article explores some aspects of the scheme of representation that the black communities of the department of Chocó created on marine/ coastal ecosystems, floodplain and Andean foothills that they have inhabited for more than three centuries. The entrance road to this aspect of intangible heritage is oral tradition, which makes visible that this territorial experience has been structured not only from the practical making and thinking, but from symbolic components which have provided reference points (imaginary axiological models, standards of conduct, ways of encoding reality, etc..) that have helped generate a significant portion of this ethnicity s cultural experience in northwestern Colombia. SP - 113 EP - 137 TI - De lo "doméstico/manso" a lo "lejano/arisco": un recorrido por la cartografía simbólica del territorio negro de Chocó UR - http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1900-54072012000100006&lang=es SN - 1900-5407 ER -